Woodbury Boarding House Register, 1804-1920
1 volume (1 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 172
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Woodbury Boarding House Register
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Woodbury Boarding House Register, 1804-1920
1 volume (1 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 172
Abstract:
Boarding house on Folly Cove in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and boarding house at Echo Hill Cottage, perhaps also in Gloucester. Includes names of visitors, callers, boarders, and lodgers (some family friends and neighbors, others unknown guests) who hailed primarily from Massachusetts but also from states around the country. Also contains early accounts from 1804, guests at a Christmas party, lists of members of the Lanesville Universalist Church and Society who died or moved away, moral and religious verses entered by "Grand Ma", and numerous perserved dried flowers and foliage, among other notations.
Terms of Access and Use: The collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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